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in his Niederlandische Volkslieder says of them, p. 97, 

 " Separated from all the world, without house or home, 

 the lepers were obliged to dwell in a solitary wretched hut 

 by the road-side; their clothing so scanty that they often 

 had nothing to wear but a hat, and a cloak, and a begging 

 wallet. They would call the attention of the passers-by 

 with a bell or a clapper, and receive their alms in a cup, 

 or a bason at the end of a long pole. The bell was usually 

 of brass. The clapper is described as an instrument made 

 of two or three boards, by rattling which they excited 

 people to relieve them." The lepers would get the name 

 of Rattle-pouches, and this be extended to the plant in 

 allusion to the little purses which it hangs out by the 

 way-side. Capsella Bursa pastoris, L. 



CLAKY, M.Lat. sclarea, a word formed from clarus, clear, 

 by prefixing the preposition ex, whence It. schiarire and 

 schiarare. This word Clary affords a curious instance of 

 medical research. It was solved by the apothecaries into 

 clear-eye, translated Oculus Christi, Godes-eie, and See- 

 bright, and eye-salves made of it. See Gerarde, p. 827. 



Salvia Sclarea, L. 

 ,, WILD-, Salvia Verbenaca, L. 



CLAVER, Du. klaver, the old and correct way of spelling 

 Clover. See CLOVER. 



CLEAVERS, or CLIVERS, the goosegrass, A.S. clife, Du. 

 kleef-kruid, from its cleaving to the clothes, or possibly from 

 Da. klyve, O.N. klifa, climb, O.Fris. klieve. It is likely 

 that in this, as in so many other cases, a word, understood 

 in one county in one sense, has been adopted, with some 

 slight change, in another county in a different but equally 

 appropriate sense; or that one form of the word has been 

 learnt from a Dutch or Flemish book, and the other from 

 a Friesic or Scandinavian. Galium Aparine, L. 



GLIDERS, see CLITE. 



